On 7 and 14 January, the Centre for Gender Studies (ZG) and the anti-discrimination project School of Diversity will be holding a workshop at Paderborn University. The aim is to teach the basics of preventing queer hostility and to raise awareness of the needs of the LGBTQ+ community.

Under the motto "KW writes (better) together", the Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (GKW) and the Writing Competence Centre organise a monthly interdisciplinary writing group. The meeting on Monday, 12 January, will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. in room C5.218 and hybrid via Zoom. Registration is not required.

In the winter semester 2025/26, the novelist, poet and essayist Prof Dr Michael Lentz will take over the 44th Paderborn Guest Lectureship for Writers. On Monday, 12 January, the special reading "Zig Seltenes. Concert with Gunnar Geisse and Michael Lentz - with texts by Eugen Gomringer, Ernst Jandl, Michael Lentz, Renate Rasp and others" will take place in the Deelenhaus from 7.30 pm.

Doctoral candidates and postdocs who are interested in a scholarship but are still unsure about the details can find out more at the scholarship evening of the Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities on Tuesday, 13 January.

A series of public lectures will be held as part of the seminar "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" at the Institute of Education Studies. These will provide an insight into gender research at Paderborn University and open up a variety of perspectives on the research field of "Gender Studies". On Tuesday, 13 January, Stefanie Leinfellner, coordinator of the peer mentoring programme for female students, will give a lecture on the topic of "Doing…

Under the title "Cultural Perspectives on Media", the international lecture series of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Paderborn University in the winter semester 2025/26 is dedicated to the multifaceted topic of "Media" from interdisciplinary and international perspectives.

Lecture and discussion with Prof Dr Zishan Ghaffar and Sarah Lebock

Prof. Dr. Annegret Thiem from the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Paderborn will give a lecture on Thursday, January 15, on the topic of “Europe and Hispanic America: Images in our minds – how stereotypes shape our perceptions”

In the winter semester 2025/26, the novelist, poet and essayist Prof Dr Michael Lentz will take over the 44th Paderborn Guest Lectureship for Writers. On Monday, 19 January, Michael Lentz will give a lecture at 4.15 p.m. in Lecture Hall G on the topic "'That I am towards you -: take. Lose.' Form as a dynamic process in Rainer Maria Rilke".

A series of public lectures will be held as part of the seminar "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" at the Institute of Education Studies. These will provide an insight into gender research at Paderborn University and open up a variety of perspectives on the research field of "Gender Studies". On Tuesday, 20 January, Stefanie Vochatzer from the Institute of Education Studies will give a lecture on the topic "Inclusion and exclusion of knowledge:…

In the winter semester 2025/26, the Department of Contemporary History at Paderborn University's Institute of History is organising a lecture series on the topic of "Under Pressure. Democracy under stress".

Under the title "Cultural Perspectives on Media", the international lecture series of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Paderborn University in the winter semester 2025/26 is dedicated to the multifaceted topic of "Media" from interdisciplinary and international perspectives.

Since ancient times, music has been regarded as a central medium for the artistic exploration of the theme of "peace", the various facets of which will be examined in the lecture series "Music and Peace" organised by the Detmold/Paderborn Musicology Seminar. In this context, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Leßmann from HMT Leipzig will give a lecture on Wednesday, 21 January on the topic of "La douce paix: Varieties of peace in French mélodie after the First…

Lecture and discussion with psychologist (M.Sc.) Julia Bobe, psychologist Claudia Decker

Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber from the Institute for Human Sciences at the University of Paderborn will give a lecture on Thursday, January 22, on the topic of “Rethinking Europe: The example of the philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet 1706-1749”